We're excited to be sharing our draft renderings, and one thing that isn't easy to depict in them is Chicago Market's commitment to being, as one Owner wrote, "a place where the whole community can go to access affordable products (and yes, local, sustainable ones - all the goals at once!)."

So we wanted to share some things we have in place already to make food affordable in our store:

We here at Chicago Market are partnering up with other area food co-ops to host a virtual screening of the documentary film The Co-op Wars!

As I got out of my car near 63rd and S. Central Ave, a giant plane flew overhead, and it startled me a little bit. I live on the north side of Chicago, and the O’Hare planes look tiny as they follow their landing pathways. But here in the Clearing neighborhood, I am just a block from Midway Airport, and airplanes sure do take up a lot of sky from this vantage point.

While the Uptown Farmers Market has been connecting amazing local farmers and producers with customers every Wednesday since May, we here at the Chicago Market Events Team were proud to add an artistic and literary vibe to our space this month!

As we continue working toward opening the full-service grocery store that will ultimately fill the building, we are happy to join with community partners and host events like Aug. 8th's Uptown Art Fair and Aug. 15th's Pop-Up Book Sale.

Chicago Market would like you to meet Kim Jean (affectionately known as Miss Kim), founder and owner of Mossum (moss + yum), maker of edible algae sea moss. Sea moss is an amazing 100% natural, nutrient dense, sustainable food that is vegan, low calorie and full of good stuff! Kim Jean will be present at our next SHOP event on June 20th to tell you more – but until then, here’s a little bit about Kim and Mossum.

What do Meliora Cleaning Products and Chicago Market have in common? They both care a lot about what goes into the products we use in our day-to-day lives. Meliora's focus is on products that WORK and get the job done, and they are picky about the ingredients they choose to do the work.

We at Chicago Market were proud to host Peterson Garden Project's Ninth Annual Edible Plant Sale this past weekend! In addition to the hundreds of people that came through our location at Wilson & Broadway to purchase organic seedlings, we were able to welcome an awesome 10 new Chicago Market Owners who signed up in support of building a locally-focused, sustainably-minded, and community-connected grocery store in our space!

Bridget Walsh of City Grange joined us yesterday for an online workshop all about urban gardens and landscaping. She shared what we need to know to assess our sites and how to select the perfect plants, incorporate native and pollinator plants, and more for our upcoming projects!

Kasey Eaves of Vivant Gardening Services joined us yesterday for the latest in her series of online workshops on growing and gardening. Our topic was the very seasonal one of seed starting indoors so we can get our gardens started confidently and keep seedlings strong and healthy until it's time to transplant.

Tamara Mannelly of Oh Lardy joined us yesterday for an online workshop all about fermented foods, including how they can benefit a healthy lifestyle and how to quickly and easily make them at home!